Some of biggest names in golf have played the local course

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Jul. 12, 2013

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Biltmore Forest Country Club rarely ventures outside the comforts of private, country club golf, but when it does, some of the biggest names in the game are involved.

Famed designer Donald Ross was summoned from Pinehurst to design the course built by the Vanderbilt family, and it opened for play in July 1922.

Bobby Jones played these 18 holes during his honeymoon, Ben Hogan won a PGA Tour event at BFCC in 1940, two-time U.S. Open champion Cary Middlecoff was a member, Babe Zaharias stuck a peg in the ground here and a new era of female teenage sensations was built in part by players like ...